Al Gore apparently has no command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of degrees! Apparently, Slate editors who look equally like dufuses for printing this dreck didn’t notice his latest one either. Maybe all those trips around the world in the private jet have damaged his ability to tell the time and date? Too many trip across the International Dateline perhaps?
Here’s an interview question put to him from Slate:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus. But the noise machine built by the climate deniers often seizes on what they can blow out of proportion, so they’ve thought this is a bigger deal than it is.
But wait there’s more…
Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.
A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.
These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.
Earth to Al, Earth to Al, come in Al.
Despite the fact that some of the 10 year old emails discussed important issues like the 2001 IPCC report and what made it into it…the most recent emails in Climategate were from November 2009. Last month, this year, earth time.
For example, here’s one from November 12th from Phil Jones:
And there are dozens to hundreds more within the last month, the last year, and the last 10 years.
Search for yourself here: http://eastangliaemails.com
Jeeez!! Gore. What a vacuous nimrod, and people pay to listen to him.
h/t to WUWT reader “debreuil”
Sponsored IT training links:
Pass your JN0-100 exam in 1st attempt using 642-736 dumps and 000-100 practice exam.
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Just tonight on CBS we heard Katie Couric stating that this last decade was the warmest on record. It doesn’t matter that the record is false if 51% of the voters believe it.
Until we can get the public to recognize Gore for what he is, he’ll continue to get his picture on the cover of Time Magazine, instead of Mad Magazine, where it belongs.
I used to wonder when my American friends would take me aside and speak to me confidentially saying “You guys know that Al Gore is an idiot don’t you?”. Like someone taking you aside as you are about to part with your hard earned money for some “snake oil” cure all remedy.
Well now I really do get it. He seems to have a spring loaded mechanism that rams his foot into his mouth whenever he speaks.
Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord. I don’t think you should liken MBP to him.
Al Gore also said “The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It’s been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years”. Such a deep knowledge he has of what it was like before the Holocene!
The fact that he wont discuss anything with anyone without all questions being pre checked shows one thing- You aint no Man Al.
This probably explains why Al thinks the temperature is still rising. His internet connection has a 10 year latency.
To people flying around up in the stratosphere (both literally and figuratively) divorced from any semblence of association with objective science, what’s a couple million degrees one way or the other. . .
And consider this: What level and weight of hard scientific evidence do y’all think would be required; before Gore and the AGW ”true believers” would be willing to stand up and admit they were wrong ?? . .
That’s right:
Just like the Inquisition convicted Galileo of heresy for saying that the earth went around the sun instead of the other way around, EVEN THOUGH other astronomers independently confirmed Galileo’s hard observational facts:
Vast hoardes of starry-eyed AGW lemmings are probably beyond reach.
One can only hope there are still enough people in the ”sensible center” to carry the day in the end. Otherwise it’s turn out the lights; the party’s over; and it’s back to the dark ages. . . .
Al Gore thinks we were born yesterday. Putz
I just posted to the Slate website regarding Mr Gore’s factual innaccuracies, I suggest others do the same.
These issues need to be raised not only here or on other sceptic websites but also in the MSM websites as well – otherwise Joe and Jo-anne Public don’t get to hear about it.
Here we go: “Al Gore answers your climate change questions”
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/08/al-gore-answers-your-climate-change-questions/
visit the page, and send in your questions! He’s there in the morning of Wednesday (Dec 9th)
Ha ha,
quick pay no attention what we need now is a story about how global warming gave tiger wood’s second cousin an ear ache and tummy upset before we have to report any real news!!
Bill (23:03:38) :
At a certain point ignorance and malice will intersect.
That’s the space-time discontinuity which enables Gore to intrude into our universe from his own.
Can you imagine all the reporters, journalists and writers who work for CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and the BBC who are forbidden to write a story about Climategete at the threat of being fired by their bosses? I can imagine many of them just itching to write about about a climategate story if their bosses would just only let them. Must stink to work for those companies.
Al Gore ‘quoted’ from Macbeth, not paraphrased it! The man’s an idiot.
Gore is not dumb, he’s just a lying cheat, worried that his empire of the carbon knights is crumbling down.
It’s time Gore was sued and made to prove his assertions on climate change in a court of law.
Perhaps a class action on behalf of all the kids who have nightmares about global warning?
I hate to think this man will get away with his ill-gotten gains.
Al Gore knows that his followers are sheep. If he says that the latest email is more than 10 years old they will believe him. None of them will check because they are believers not sceptics (skeptics) whatever….
Down in Oz, Australian of the year, Tim Flannery, Climate Alarmist No.1 did this calculation in an article in a leading Alarmist newspaper (The Melbourne Age). Flannery claims to be a scientist. Of what, I don’t know.
Paraphrasing…..
Average global temperature in 1900 was 15C. Now it’s 20C. That’s a 25% increase in temperature!
Check…. (unless it has been modified by the Age… which has been know to happen when they get caught out… in that case I kept a PDF as evidence)
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/climate-sceptics-and-the-liberals-negotiating-in-bad-faith-20091203-k8pr.html
An economist, Terry McCrannt pointed out that its actually (based on Flannery’s figures) a 33% increase. He went on to say that if Flannery can’t undertake that basic calculation why should we believe anything he says.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/terry-mccranns-column/climate-hysteria-just-warming-up/story-e6frfig6-1225808076539
Now for the interesting bit. McCrannt received dozens of emails pointing out another dishonest part of Flannery’s calculation. Why didn’t he use the Kelvin scale? (I know this because I wrote to McCrannt and he replied to me)
In that case the numbers are (roughly) 288K in 1900 and 293K now. That leads to 5/288 = 1.7%
I noticed two things (apart from Flannery’s rubbery figures)
1. His supporters immediately rallied to his defence and went on to rail against these evil, extermist deniers. How could they question the Australian of the year regardless of the fact that he can’t do a basic calculation.
2. Nobody cared about the fundemental issue about the Kelvin scale.
But…. here is the kicker in my mind (as well as a whole lot of other people)
According to the Warmers, variability in Solar output is only 0.1%
Temperature increase over the past 100 years is around 0.5K (shoot me if I’m wrong… It’s a rough estimate)
-> 0.5K/288K = 0.18%
Clearly orders of magnitude greater than the Solar variation!… Oh…hang on!?!
I understand that this is a super rough model but perhaps this could be explored by somebody who has a better understanding of thermodynamics than I do. (Maybe it already has been).
P.S. if I’ve messed up a calculation I will never claim to be Australian of the year and I would welcome anybody setting me straight.
I believe whitewash supplies have now fallen to critical levels, has Al invested some of his ill gotten gains in whitewash futures!!!.
Non resident question……
8 or so years ago when the Chadgate election drama was unfolding, if Bush had lost, would Al Gore have become President of the United States?
Wow! So close!
Be thankful for small mercies!
Far away in the Surrey Hills……..
Al Gore, the man of infinite talent, obviously lives in the future… it’s 2019 for him. Which tells us several things:
1. The Mayan Armageddon of 2012 is not going to happen. We’re good on that one. Won’t we all breathe a sigh of relief!
2. Unfortunately, while the Mayans forecast didn’t come true, apparently the center of the earth in 2019 has attained several million degrees… so it’s getting a bit toasty around those geothermal generation plants. Oh, and the bottom of the Grand Canyon is kinda molten… but it’s pretty at night with the lava and all.
3. Al is running his house on that free energy that the oil companies bought the patents to, and hid. Which means that in the next ten years we can generate electricity in our basements, apparently out of wishful thinking and maybe cat poop. So we should stop criticizing him for his extra large carbon footprint… he isn’t really making one, but he just can’t tell us because the technology is in our future. And if he told us how to do it, the Large Hadron Collider would implode and …. ummm….
Never mind, he’s just not very bright.
It is and has been clear to me and to most of the readers of this blog that the mind of Mr. Al Gore has turned to mush.
I think he has now taken leave of his senses, reality is now a distant concept to Mr. Al Gore, like many of the Copenhagen delegates.
Latest off the press, from the Met Office, 2009 warmest year since time (er no for 160yrs) began!!! – whatever – anything for a headline and the bunfight in Denmark goes on………….
But what about El nino?
We’ve been here before I guess, anyhow must be correct because their mates at the CRU says so.
OMG – Algore writes poetry
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100019364/climategate-the-inaugural-al-gore-prize-poetry-competition/
And something to make you laugh – the excellent MATT cartoon from the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/?cartoon=6737442&cc=6695729
There are a lot of things he hasn’t read.
How much longer can this guy roam around spruiking his nonsense before he gets locked up?
There must be some very nervous GIM investors following his meanderings and drivel at the moment. I read that the Church of England had recently placed 150 million GBP into GIM’s safe-keeping. What are they expecting? Whose idea was that?